Decorating walls and other surfaces.



E. SWITZER. DECORATING WALLS AND OTHER SURFACES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3, 1905.

PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

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EVA SIVITZE R, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

DECORATING WALLS AND OTHER SURFACES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed May 3, 1905. Serial No. 258.656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVA SwrrzER, a citizen I of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Decorating Walls and other Surfaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to decorations for walls, ceilings, and like surfaces, and particu larly to decorations which may be secured upon such surfaces by tacking, pasting, or other suitable means.

The primary object of the invention is to provide decorations of this character which when secured in place on a surface will represent a flock of birds in the act of flying.

'Another object is to provide decorations of this character by means of which the representati'on may be varied at the will of the user.

, Another object is to provide decorations of this character which will represent a flock of birds in flight when secured upon a surface at random and without any 1dea of regularlty or arrangement.

Another object is to provide decorations of this character which will represent a flock of birds in flight in perspective when secured in a preconceived order or at random upon a perfectly plain unornamented surface, said representation being produced by the decorations alone without the assistance of any prior painting, coloring, or decoration of the surface.

\Vith these objects in view the invention consists in the improved decorations hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure 1 represents a portion of a wall, ceiling, or like surface having secured thereon decorations such as form the object of my invention. Fig. 2 represents a piece of paper, cardboard, or the like from which one of the figures used in my invention has been cut out.

The figures illustrated at 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent birds in different positions offlight and of different sizes. These figures may represent the same variety of birds or different varieties and may be cut from paper of the same or different colors. By applying a plurality of such figures to the surface to be decorated the representation of a flock of birds in flight is always produced, the larger figures appearing 1n the foreground, as the figures at 1 1 1 in the drawings, and such being followed by the birds represented at 2, 3, and 4, each size appearing to be in different visual planes.

The flock of birds may be represented as all flying in the same direction, as in the drawings; but this may be varied at will, the different figures being adapted to be secured in position to represent birds flying in many diflerent directions.

The figures may be secured to a surface by any desired means either permanently or removably by tacking, pasting, or the like, and as a ready means for removably securing them holes, as at 5 in the drawings, may be made in the figures.

As before stated, the figures may represent a flock of birds of one or more than one variety, and they may in either instance be of a single color or of a variety of colors, thus providing for a great variety of effects when in place.

The figures may be colored on one face only or may be of the same or different colors on their opposite faces, thus affording still further variety.

In the drawings I have represented a sur face to be decorated at 7 and at 6 in Fig. 2 a sheet of paper, cardboard, or other material from which a figure, such as 4, has been cut out.

In carrying out the invention it will be understood that a plurality of figures of birds in different positions and of difierent sizes must be used, and the sets may be put up in suitable packages or boxes, each containing such a plurality of one variety of birds or of mixed varieties or of one color or of different colors in either the single or mixed varieties.

The efiect of representing a flock of birds in perspective in different positions of flight and in different planes of vision will be produced by securing a plurality of such figures upon a perfectlyblank or plain surface, thereby rendering it possible to decorate a plain undecorated wall or the like or a surface covered with a plain or solid colored paper without any preparation whatever. This perspective representation of a flock of birds in flight will always be produced by securing a plurality of such figures of birds in different positions of flight and of different sizes upon a surface no matter whether the figures are arranged with great care in preconceived or prearranged positions or whether they are simply secured in position haphazard as they may come to hand, it being impossible to secure such a set of figures in anything like juxtaposition on a surface without producing this effect.

What I claim as new is 1. As a decoration for walls or other surfaces a plurality of cut-out representations of birds in different positions assumed while flying, and of different sizes, the whole collectively, being adapted when secured upon the wall or other surface to be decorated, to represent a flock of birds in flight, in perspec tive.

2. As a decoration for walls or other surfaces, a set or series of cut-out figures each figure representing a flying bird, the set co1nprising figiues of birds in difierent positions and figures of different sizes, the set being adapted when secured to a plain undecorated surface, to represent in perspective, a fiock of birds in flight.

fitness my hand, this 27th day of April, 1905, at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York EVA SVVITZER. Witnesses HERMAN MEYER, S. J. Cox. 

